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Hoarding Addiction Disorder and Life in The Correctional System
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Hoarding Addiction Disorder and Life in The Correctional System
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) recognizes hoarding addiction disorder as a mental illness. Individuals with hoarding disorder present with persistent difficulties in parting with or discarding their possessions such as old books, magazines, clothes, and bags, which they consider as useful or with esthetic value (Mataix-Cols, 2014). Hoarding addiction disorder affects prisoners and officers' lives in the correctional system with safety and health consequences.
People hoarding experience increased levels of anxiety and emotional distress over the feeling of parting with items. Piles of these items may block fire exits and cause serious safety and health issues in correctional systems (Foundations Recovery Network, 2021). During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, hoarding was common in some correctional centers such as the Chowchilla's Central California Women's Facili...